WiggleWoo Worm Farm

12/06/2026

I was delighted today to find that my new bucket breeder bin system is working perfectly.

The idea is to continuously grow my worm population, as my business grows.

Of course this makes sense from a composting and vermicast production perspective, but it is also a living investment.

Each earthworm is worth 33 cents at cost, though I can sell them for as much as R1 each. The worm population can double every three months if properly managed. That's exponential growth. A physical, prolifically growing, business asset.

30/05/2026

We have 94 households on our collection route already and it would make my month, if we could reach 100 by the end of May.

27/05/2026

Yay vermicast week!

It's always a busy one for us, here at WiggleWoo farm. It took me four days to package all the 1l bags of vermicast, in between all the other stuff going on.

The load was lightened a bit by the arrival of two new helpers on the farm, who will be driving, teaching and farming alongside me.

On the other hand, I'm solo parenting this week, which is challenging under the best of circumstances.

In any case, we did it. We are doing it. Go us!

24/05/2026

Have you heard about the worm farm thing people are doing?

Well, it's finally your turn! We're expanding to Welcome Glen, Glencairn, Glencairn heights.

WiggleWoo wants to do your composting for you.

A R150 per month subscription gets you:

- A clean 10l bucket every week, swapped for your bucket full of food scraps.
- Once a month, you get 2l vermicast back.
- Discounts, free delivery and first pick on vermicast sales

No more food scraps in your municipal bin!

If this sounds like your thing, complete our sign up form and we'll drop your first bucket this coming Friday.

If you would like to subscribe to our food waste collection service, please complete the form below and we will add you to the list for our next round of subscriptions.

23/05/2026

Once a month we return 2l vermicast to our subscribers.

That means the weekend before, I get to pack vermicast. We've gone through lots of trial and error in terms of packaging and I eventually settled on paper bags for two main reasons: it allows me to keep the price per liter of vermicast as low as possible, and the bags are compostable.

Unfortunately, however, they aren't the most sturdy form of packaging. Eventually, the paper wicks moisture from the vermicast and starts to disintegrate. This means I can only package the vermicast a day or two ahead.

For product quality, this is ideal. You don't want the vermicast sitting in packaging too long anyway. Not ideal for me, who works straight through the weekend.

I've also found that the user experience is not great should the bag break inside the bucket, spilling the vermicast.

We've not come up with an overall solution yet, but for now, I have a few hundred paper bags to use up first.

22/05/2026

Yes, even onions and citrus!

The point is to make the system as easy as possible to use. If you need five different buckets, source separation becomes difficult and, eventually, people give up.

So, though trial and error and many unfortunate worms, we've developed a system that allows all kinds of food waste - except for meat and large quantities of oil.

And the one main thing people keep telling me over and over is:
I can't believe how much food waste we have! I love not throwing it in the dustbin.

So this was me, on a normal day, filming when I remember. Consistency over perfection.

20/05/2026

We currently operate in Kommetjie, Imhoff's gift, Capri and Noordhoek on a Monday and Tuesday. This week, we started weighing the food waste that comes in.

In total, we collected 352kg of food waste from 85 subscribed households.

18/05/2026

We saved 280kgs of food waste from going to landfill today! That's 58 households all subscribed to our food waste collection service on a Monday.

Tomorrow, we do it again for a different neighborhood!

16/05/2026

Wormies wormies, we'll meet you tomorrow!

My kids LOVE the worms and will take every opportunity to play with them and show their friends.

This is the backtrack of a farm day.

15/05/2026

The City of Cape Town's 2025 waste management strategy outlines the plan to reduce the food waste that enters the city's landfills.

The plan includes banning food waste in municipal dustbins and encouraging home composting.

The city is even giving away free compost bins!

Even without the regulatory and environmental benefits of composting, the result is worth it: nutrient rich compost for your plants.

But anyone who has managed a compost bin or pile before will tell you that it is not as passive as it is made out to be.

That is where we come in.

WiggleWoo Worm Farm is an urban composting initiative focussed on reducing food waste that goes to landfill in the Deep South.

We collect your kitchen scraps every week and do the composting for you.

The subscription includes:
- Weekly bucket swap where we collect your full food waste bucket and leave a clean 10L bucket at your door
- 2L premium vermicast every month - one of the best natural fertilisers for gardens and houseplants.

Why join?
• No more smelly food waste in your dustbin
• Less attraction for baboons and pests
• Reduce food waste going to landfill
• Support a local circular waste system
• Comply with the City of Cape Town's impending 2027 ban on food scraps in dustbins

Current subscription cost:
R150 per month, starting in June

Interested? Fill in the Google form below and Clarisa will be in touch.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfTPe4Q8ACuUZSWkd0xSkcVF6dpQvmLLmS3x1msPvG1WqG7HA/viewform?usp=publish-editor

Read the CoCT full waste management strategy here:
CCT_Waste_Strategy.pdf https://share.google/coUVytmM9PkaK2yiq